Tour de France 2015

MPCC just asked Lars Boom to get pulled from Astana team

The old cortisone

Ooff. If I was Astana, I'd ditch the MPCC.

Shouldn't that be the other way round?

Or maybe cortisol. And he's gone apparently

What value to the MPCC add? It's a rag bag of teams, many of whom use it as a front to try and improve their image.

Or maybe not. My head hurts.

Vino has apparently said they'll leave the MPCC and start Boom. I believe there is no reason why they cannot do this.

Yeah just leave mpcc. Mpcc is a joke anyway.

And what of his cortisol levels? Fatigue before a GT? Riiiight

I'm sure I'm not the first person to have pointed this out but MTN Qhebeka isn't the first African team at the TdF.

In, in the era of national teams 1951 there was a North African team. I spent a while on Wikipedia looking that up.

You can all go to bed now.

And Virenque is North African. Which makes North Africa a very successful country in terms of Tour de France victories.

I've been reading about cortisol but I'm a bit tired.

I know it isn't cortisone but what benefit would low levels be and what is it indicative of?

http://breakingmuscle.com/health-medicine/the-ups-and-downs-of-cortisol-what-you-need-to-know

That's too much info for me. Let's just say he rides for Astana taps nose and leave it there.

Virenque is North African

Virenque's family were rich white French colonials. Bouhani is a proper North African.

Good piece about cortisol and the MPCC on inrng a couple of weeks ago

http://inrng.com/2015/06/abolish-the-mpcc/

And that's why the mpcc is a joke.

Sky have never been a member, because it's a joke.

Inrng sums up why perfectly.

Chris needs his puffer. He's got a note from his mum and everything.

So is the live data that's being collected from riders being put on the net anywhere?

those new Giro helmets are a bit ugly

I reckon Van Emden's time is going to take some beating if Durbridge was 30 secs down.

If Carlton Kirby says Turbo Durbo one more time...

Alpecin advert is the highlight so far

Some top class dubbing.

The big names will beat it.